ش ف ق sh-f-q
أَشْفَقْنَ
ashfaqna
(lit., a dress made up of a mix of flimsy threads)
Definition
- 1أَشْفَقْنَashfaqnato be fearful, concerned10
- 2شَفَقshafaqtwilight, faint sun rays mixed with darkness after sunset1
Total uses in the Qur’an: 11
Qur’anic usage
Sense 1
أَشْفَقْنَ · مُشْفِقُون
إِنَّا عَرَضْنَا ٱلْأَمَانَةَ عَلَى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَٱلْجِبَالِ فَأَبَيْنَ أَن يَحْمِلْنَهَا وَأَشْفَقْنَ مِنْهَا وَحَمَلَهَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ ظَلُومًۭا جَهُولًۭا
Indeed, we offered the Trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, and they declined to bear it and feared it; but man [undertook to] bear it. Indeed, he was unjust and ignorant.
33:72draft glosses: 18 of 18
ٱلَّذِينَ يَخْشَوْنَ رَبَّهُم بِٱلْغَيْبِ وَهُم مِّنَ ٱلسَّاعَةِ مُشْفِقُونَ
Who fear their Lord unseen, while they are of the Hour apprehensive.
21:49draft glosses: 8 of 8
Sense 2
ٱلشَّفَق
فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِٱلشَّفَقِ
So I swear by the twilight glow
84:16draft glosses: 3 of 3
DawahAgent2026-06-20 · reviewed